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The future of the disarmament agenda is on the line now as New START ratification moves forward in the US Senate.

Reprocessing in the U.S.: A Waste of Time
Edwin S. Lyman
Senior Staff Scientist
Union of Concerned Scientists
July 20, 2009

Interim Dry-cask Storage vs. Spent-fuel Reprocessing
Frank von Hippel, Princeton University
Co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Material (IPFM)
Senate Staff Briefing, 20 July 2009

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Stop $25 billion in Nuclear Giveaways in the House
Putting another $25 billion into costly, economically risky and polluting new reactors will be at the expense of solving climate change with clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Call or email your Representatives today and tell them that these subsidies are unacceptable.
Don't Undermine Public Safety in New Reactor Licensing
Even as the consequences of lax regulation and lax oversight are washing oil onto the Gulf coast, proposed climate legislation in the Senate would cut regulatory corners in licensing new nuclear reactors.

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power
The nuclear industry seeks to revitalize itself by manipulating the public’s concerns about global warming and energy insecurity to promote nuclear power as a clean and safe way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce dependence on foreign energy resources. Read more »
Childhood Leukemia and Cancers Near German Nuclear Reactors
A government-sponsored study of childhood cancer in the proximity of German nuclear power plants (German acronym KiKK) found that children < 5 years living < 5 km from plant exhaust stacks had twice the risk for contracting leukemia as those residing > 5 km. Read more »
Existing Subsidies and Incentives for New Nuclear Reactors
A fact sheet on the current subsidies and incentives for new nuclear reactors. Read more »

August 16, 2010
Countdown to Zero
On the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the Sacramento Annual August Peace Event and Physicians for Social Responsibility-Sacramento screened "Countdown To Zero," a film that traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs. Read more about this month’s chapter in the spotlight event on Hiroshima.